4,927 photos
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Ice hockey player at Glaciarium, Sydney, 5 June 1952
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- 2 comments
- 23 favorites
- 7,765 views
- Date taken: 1952-06-05 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2023-06-14
- Tags: glaciarium, icehockey, rinks, old, vintage
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Ladies' Reliability Trials, Australia, 1936
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- 2 comments
- 39 favorites
- 8,643 views
- Date taken: 1936-06-01 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2023-06-09
- Tags: motorsport, vintage, cars, motor, vehicles, nsw56094
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Women spectators at wrestling, Sydney Stadium, 1940
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- 2 comments
- 74 favorites
- 12,349 views
- Date uploaded: 2023-05-03
- Tags: sydneystadium, spectators, women, sports, 1940s, sydney
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Fort Phillip, Flagstaff Hill, Sydney, ca. 1841
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- 2 comments
- 36 favorites
- 7,494 views
- Date taken: 1841
- Date uploaded: 2023-03-01
- Tags: fortphillip, flagstaffhill, sydney, 1840s
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Two children, Little Riley Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, 1949, by Ted Hood
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- 2 comments
- 136 favorites
- 11,130 views
- Date taken: 1949
- Date uploaded: 2023-01-25
- Tags: children, 1949, 1940s, postwar, sydney, streetscapes, buildings
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Interior of entrance foyer, Minerva Theatre, Sydney, 1939
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- 2 comments
- 28 favorites
- 9,135 views
- Date uploaded: 2023-01-23
- Tags: theatres, sydney, historic, old, vintage, minerva, deco, 1930s, design, architecture
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Ship surrounded by tug boats, Balmain, 1942
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- 2 comments
- 48 favorites
- 10,883 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-11-22
- Tags: ships, vessels, merchant, worldwartwo, ww2, tugs, sydney, harbour, fires, accidents, lindfield, ship, oceanliner, sswashington, unitedstateslines, newyorkshipbuildingcorporation, newyorkshipbuilding, newyorkship, unitedstatesnavy, usnavy, usn, ussmountvernonap22, ussmountvernon, ap22, trooptransport, troopship
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Gun Battery, SMS Bismarck, 1879
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- 2 comments
- 25 favorites
- 8,307 views
- Date taken: 1879
- Date uploaded: 2022-11-20
- Tags: battery, gun, ship, cannonsvintage, sailing, steam, old
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Water Skiing, Sydney Harbour, by Robert Rice, 1940
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- 2 comments
- 89 favorites
- 16,115 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-11-03
- Tags: summer, water, skiing, sydney, harbour, vintage, fun, 1940
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Sono Osato, 'Ballet Russe' dancer, 1939-1940
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- 2 comments
- 87 favorites
- 12,687 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-20
- Tags: dancer, ballet, balletrusse, australia, samhood, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, sonoosato
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Skeleton dancers and band on theatre stage, Sydney, c. 1928
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- 2 comments
- 60 favorites
- 29,652 views
- Date taken: 1928
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-18
- Tags: theatre, sydney, stageproductions, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, australia, halloween
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Ben Turner before taking off to make a parachute jump, Camden, Sydney, 1938
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- 2 comments
- 31 favorites
- 7,679 views
- Date taken: 1938-08-14 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-12
- Tags: parachute, ben, turner
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Ben Turner taking off before making a parachute jump, Camden, Sydney, 1938
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- 2 comments
- 39 favorites
- 8,408 views
- Date taken: 1938-08-14 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-10-09
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Surfing Bondi, 1938
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- 2 comments
- 93 favorites
- 11,988 views
- Date taken: 1938-10-20 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-09-25
- Tags: surfing, history, early, australia, sydney, bondi, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, summer
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Meeting of strikers at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, 18 April 1909
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- 2 comments
- 52 favorites
- 8,439 views
- Date taken: 1909-04-13 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-08-02
- Tags: strikes, steelworks, workers, action, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, 1909, linconshire, industrial, scunthorpe
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Woman getting into a car with groceries, Sydney, September 1947
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- 2 comments
- 56 favorites
- 27,747 views
- Date taken: 1947-09
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-31
- Tags: shopping, cars, vintage, australia, sydney, 1940s, 1947
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View of Sculling competition from Parramatta River, Abbotsford
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- 2 comments
- 37 favorites
- 8,354 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-14
- Tags: boats, boating, sculling, watersport, portjackson, sydneyharbour, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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The Boyd brothers on a truck, Northern New South Wales, 1942
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- 2 comments
- 65 favorites
- 10,575 views
- Date taken: 1942
- Date uploaded: 2022-07-13
- Tags: fishing, newsouthwales, fishermen, trucks, vintage, historic, 1940s
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Oysters being served, 1952
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- 2 comments
- 51 favorites
- 10,539 views
- Date taken: 1952-03-13 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-06-05
- Tags: statelibraryofnewsouthwales, restaurant, sydney, business, vintage, early
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Portrait of Jack Kelly, of Sydney shipping agents A.J.M. Kelly Pty Ltd., July 1953.
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- 2 comments
- 33 favorites
- 9,714 views
- Date taken: 1953-07
- Date uploaded: 2022-05-29
- Tags: portraits, taxidermery, fish, marlin
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Siamese cats, Woman's Magazine photographer, May 1950
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- 2 comments
- 52 favorites
- 11,175 views
- Date taken: 1950-05
- Date uploaded: 2022-05-22
- Tags: cats, animals, siamese
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Tableau-vivant, New South Wales, Australian and American Photographic Company, ca. 1872
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- 2 comments
- 52 favorites
- 8,699 views
- Date taken: 1872
- Date uploaded: 2022-05-17
- Tags: australianandamericanphotographiccompany, 1870s, newsouthwales, nsw, tableauvivant, theatre, goldrush
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Summer Street and Anson Street, Orange, ca. 1873
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- 2 comments
- 47 favorites
- 9,873 views
- Date taken: 2010-07-14 11:43:24
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-22
- Tags: orange, ruralnewsouthwales, goldrush, holtermann, americanandaustralasianphotographiccompany, glassnegatives
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HR Locke attempting world diving record, Sydney Heads, 1934
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- 2 comments
- 97 favorites
- 12,467 views
- Date taken: 1934-04-05 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-04-04
- Tags: diving, divingsuits, experminetal, oceans, australia, deepseadiving, diver, hardhatdiver, divingsuit
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Water police and army prepare to leave for the flood at Casino photo by K. Issitt, 1954
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- 2 comments
- 26 favorites
- 8,500 views
- Date taken: 1954-02-21 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-31
- Tags: floods, northernrivers, newsouthwales, nsw, volunteers, cleanup, flooding, dukw, larc
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Studio portrait of (Thomas) Frederick Robson dressed as an English police sergeant, 1859
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- 2 comments
- 33 favorites
- 9,882 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-13
- Tags: police, lawenforcement, 1860ss, portraits, studio
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Youths listening to a jukebox, Sydney, 9 July 1947
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- 2 comments
- 65 favorites
- 11,534 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-03-08
- Tags: jukebox, youths, 1940s, sydney, music, records, entertainment
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RAAF crew working on newly arrived Lockheed aircraft at Richmond, Sydney, 1940
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- 2 comments
- 75 favorites
- 12,125 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-02-14
- Tags: raaf, aircraft, lockheed, ww2, worldwartwo, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, richmond, sydney, aviation, airplane, militaryaviation, bomber, royalaustralianairforce, lockheedhudson, worldwarii, wwii
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Women working on an aircraft fuselage, 1943
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- 2 comments
- 83 favorites
- 13,943 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-01-30
- Tags: women, industry, newsouthwales, sydney, aircraft, worldwartwo, ww2, workers, homefront
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Two young boys on an Ariel motorbike, National Park, Sydney, 1940
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- 2 comments
- 93 favorites
- 16,075 views
- Date taken: 1940-01-18 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2022-01-18
- Tags: children, laughter, fun, summer, aeriel, motorbike, motorcycle, camping, nationalpark, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, vintage, early
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Y.M.C.A. women playing cricket, Sydney University, R. Donaldson, 23 March 1941
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- 2 comments
- 61 favorites
- 24,923 views
- Date uploaded: 2022-01-08
- Tags: cricket, women, sydneyuniversity, batting, amateur, ymca, 1941, ww2, australia, worldwartwo
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Australian National Airways Limited (A.N.A.) hanger completed, Kingsford Smith Airport, Mascot, Sydney, 1929 - 1931
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- 2 comments
- 54 favorites
- 10,695 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-12-22
- Tags: mascot, ana, australiannationalairways, australian, aviation, history, pioneers, aircraft, vintage, industry, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, charlesulm
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Hiking fashion, 11 July 1932, Sun Newspaper
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- 2 comments
- 74 favorites
- 16,556 views
- Date taken: 1932-07-11 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-12-19
- Tags: hiking, walking, fashion, sydney, australia, 1930s, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Group of fossickers, New South Wales, ca. 1930, Hall & Co
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- 2 comments
- 61 favorites
- 9,917 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-14
- Tags: fossicking, rockcollection, rocks, newsouthwales, hallandco, photojournalism, vernacular
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Beer kegs in a pub wrapped-up to keep them cool, Kalgoorlie 1949
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- 2 comments
- 24 favorites
- 10,692 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-10
- Tags: pubs, hotels, beer, kalgoorlie, westernaustralia, 1949, 1940s
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Outline of a tattoo of a woman's head being applied by Fred Harris, Sydney, 23 February 1939
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- 2 comments
- 36 favorites
- 12,744 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-02
- Tags: tattooing, tattoos, fredharris, state, library, new, south, wales
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Lionel Van Praag and three other motorcycle speedway riders, 9 February 1946
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- 2 comments
- 53 favorites
- 11,530 views
- Date taken: 1946-02-09 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-11-01
- Tags: motocycles, speedway, lionelvanpraag, riders, sydney, australia, leathers, bikes, helmets, 1940s, motorbikes
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Dunlop Perdriau's Triumph delivery van
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- 2 comments
- 55 favorites
- 11,224 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-14
- Tags: delivery, vans, vintage, early, old, commercial, vehicles, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Ballarat Fire Brigade Station, Victoria, Australia, c. 1873
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- 2 comments
- 54 favorites
- 12,354 views
- Date taken: 1873
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-10
- Tags: firebrigades, stations, fire, fighters, vintage, early, historic, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, architecture, victoria, australia
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New Fiat station wagon outside the Art Gallery, Sydney, 31 March 1949
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- 2 comments
- 70 favorites
- 13,883 views
- Date taken: 1949-03-31 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-10-07
- Tags: cars, vehicles, vintage, fiat, stationwagon, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Chemist shop window with Kodak advertising, August 1938, Sam Hood
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- 2 comments
- 38 favorites
- 10,654 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-09-10
- Tags: chemist, shops, window, displays, australia, sydney, samhood, statelibraryofnewsouthwales, kodak, photographicsupplies
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Rat exterminators searching wharves at night 24 October 1941
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- 2 comments
- 39 favorites
- 13,556 views
- Date taken: 1941-10-24 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-09-03
- Tags: rats, rodents, plagues, extermination, sydney, australia
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'Aussie Bear' factory, Thurlstane (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Palmer Street Sydney
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- 2 comments
- 36 favorites
- 17,703 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-08-31
- Tags: toys, australian, made, koala, aussie, bear, menufacturing, sydney, thurstanes, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Street fashion, Sydney woman, 10 October 1945, by Norman Herfort
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- 2 comments
- 74 favorites
- 15,048 views
- Date taken: 1945-10-10 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-08-29
- Tags: streetfashion, 1940s, sydney, fashion, female, clothing, normanherfort
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Indian motorcycle, taken for Liberty Motors, Sydney, 14 July 1937
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- 2 comments
- 66 favorites
- 14,085 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-08-27
- Tags: indian, motorcycle, vintage, early, sidecar, sydney, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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An early picture of Coogee Beach, Sydney
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- 2 comments
- 27 favorites
- 10,151 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-08-25
- Tags: beach, coogee, easternsuburbs, sydney, development
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DeHavilland DH.88 Comet, "Grosvenor House" G-ACSS, used by Charles William Anderson Scott & Tom Campbell Black, winners of Centenary Air Race, Martin Place, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 12 November 1934
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- 2 comments
- 59 favorites
- 18,471 views
- Date taken: 1934-11-12 00:00:00
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-25
- Tags: dehavilland, dh88comet, grosvenorhouse, aircraft, planes, vintage, australia, early, cwascott, campbellblack, aviation, airplane, airracing, airracer, gacss, dehavillandaircraftcompany, dehavillandaircraft, dehaviland, dehavillanddh88comet, dehavillanddh88, dehavillandcomet, dh88, comet, dehavillandgipsysix, dehavillandgipsysixr, gipsysix, gipsysixr
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Panorama of the Battle of Algiers 1816
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- 2 comments
- 30 favorites
- 9,069 views
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-18
- Tags: navalbattles, algiers, royal, navy, 1816, 1800s, statelibraryofnewsouthwales
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Jean Lorraine, New South Wales, Australia, 1940, by Max Dupain
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- 2 comments
- 145 favorites
- 19,959 views
- Date taken: 1940
- Date uploaded: 2021-07-01
- Tags: jeanlorraine, maxdupain, australian, professional, models, photographers
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